Terry Eagleton, Author . St. Martin's $17.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-29122-8
Eagleton (The Truth About the Irish) has never been shy about expressing sharp, penetrating opinions. In this entertaining memoir of his childhood and intellectual development, Eagleton lives up to both sides of his reputation, coming off as both an
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Terry Eagleton, Author Blackwell $59.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-631-23360-2
"The aspects of tragedy I have in mind take with utmost seriousness the lethal as well as life-giving inheritances of which the present is partly made up, and which an amnesiac postmodernism has conveniently suppressed." With chapters on "
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Terry Eagleton, Author . Oxford Univ. $22 (148p) ISBN 978-0-19-928717-8
With the knowledge of a library's worth of theology and literature in his back pocket, leading literary critic Eagleton (After Theory
) sets out to trace the "genealogy" of terrorism by describing its role in societies throughout history.
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Terry Eagleton, Author Verso $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-85984-667-4
The review-essay is a form requiring journalistic concision, rigorous analytical thinking and sympathetic reading of another's texts. Eagleton, most famous in the U.S. for his oft-assigned Literary Theory: An Introduction and most recently the...
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Terry Eagleton, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-25488-9
Eagleton's very cheeky look at the Irish tickles as it informs. Relating the A to Zs of Irish life and culture in brief essays arranged by subject, the Oxford literature professor (Heathcliffe and the Great Hunger; Literary Theory; etc.) employs a...
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Terry Eagleton, Author Wiley-Blackwell $57.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-631-21965-1
It is a little disconcerting, after reading the elegant and precise first chapter of Eagleton's overview of political, social and cultural concepts of culture, to find him stating at the outset of the second one: ""[I]t is hard to resist the...
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Terry Eagleton, Author Basic Books $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-465-01773-7
The author of the seminal cultural studies primer Literary Theory now levels an equally trenchant critique at the field in this brilliant and provocative reassessment. Writing in a valedictory mood, Eagleton traces the rise of cultural theory...
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Terry Eagleton, Author . Yale Univ. $25 (176p) ISBN 978-0-300-15106-0
An engaging if ultimately unsatisfactory argument in favor of the reality of evil by one of Britain's most distinguished Marxist literary critics. Analyzing some of Western literature's major pronouncements on evil from Thomas Aquinas to...
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Terry Eagleton, Yale Univ., $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-300-16943-0
A lively defense of Karl Marx's ideas attempts to reassert their relevancy for a world in the throes of global financial instability. Taking issue with what he sees as the 10 most common criticisms of Marxism, literary and cultural theorist Eagleton
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Terry Eagleton. Yale Univ., $26 (239p) ISBN 978-0-300-17881-4
What, exactly, is literature? In his latest, Eagleton returns to familiar questions about the nature of literature and theory, extending and refining the thinking of his early landmark work, Literary Theory: An Introduction. In wry, thrifty prose,...
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Terry Eagleton. Yale Univ., $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-300-19096-0
Notable and polarizing English critic Eagleton provides basic instruction on close reading and literary criticism for beginners. He discusses the opening sentences of some famous works and explains how they establish tone, employ irony, or create...
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Terry Eagleton. Yale Univ., $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-300-20399-8
In his usual engaging manner, cultural critic Eagleton (Reason, Faith, and Revolution) offers a tour-de-force survey of the changing relation of culture and religion. Moving from the Enlightenment—where the ideological power of religion is...
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Terry Eagleton. Yale Univ., $25 (192p) ISBN 978-0-300-21879-4
Fans of esteemed literary theorist Eagleton (Why Marx Was Right) will be pleased with this analysis of culture as the sum of “values, customs, beliefs and symbolic practices.” Eagleton carefully distinguishes culture from civilization, “a world...
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Terry Eagleton. Yale Univ, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-300-26448-7
Literary critic Eagleton (Tragedy) explores in this erudite survey the work of five literary critics who developed and popularized a form of analysis built on a belief that “the close reading of literary texts was a profoundly moral activity which...
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